George Will's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference this week.  Must watch.  Will makes a devastating case against the direction of the current administration (Republicans take their share of shots as well).

After a joke, Will comments:  "When public policy has become a punchline, the nation has a problem and we have an opportunity."

The start here:



Part two here.

"No one washes a rental car." 

And envy as a driver of social policy:  "Envy is the only one of the seven deadly sins that doesn't give the sinner even momentary pleasure."

Part three here.

Warning against the "soft despotism" of government: 

"Every day it renders the employment of free will less useful and more rare; it confines the action of the will in a smaller space and little by little it steals the very use of free will from its citizens.  It reduces each nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd."

Alexis de Tocqueville